THE BIJOU REVIEW: “The Big Year”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Bergman Island,” “True Things” & “France”
BERGMAN ISLAND (IFC – Oct. 15): Mia Hansen-Love’s Bergman Island asks to be poked and scrutinized in several ways. It takes place on the island of Faro, where Ingmar Bergman filmed some of his most celebr...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Transformers: Dark of the Moon”
TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON – Worth A Ticket – But Only If You Insist On Seeing It This is what gives ulcers to control freak movie directors: despite Michael Bay’s well-publicized orders to thea...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Hunger Games”
THE HUNGER GAMES: Worth A Ticket – The Odds Are Mostly In Its Favor Now that virtually every blockbuster movie opens in IMAX, going to an IMAX theatre at this time of year provides a de facto trailer festi...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Breaking Dawn Part I”
THE TWILIGHT SAGA – BREAKING DAWN PART 1: Watch It At Home – The Saga Sags In Slow Prelude To The End The worldwide phenomenon that is Twilight often finds itself compared to Harry Potter, and...
Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Zone Of Interest,” “Expats” & “Finestkind”
THE ZONE OF INTEREST (A24 – TBD): Jonathan Glazer has only directed 4 feature films in his 23-year career (the most recent was Under the Skin a decade ago). His latest, The Zone of Interest, is a work of for...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Sarah’s Key”
SARAH’S KEY – Watch It At Home: Misses a Difficult Mark There may be no cinematic minefield more dangerous for filmmakers than the Holocaust. For films entering that difficult territory, the...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Moonrise Kingdom”
MOONRISE KINGDOM: Worth A Ticket – The Kingdom is Wes Anderson’s Wes Anderson seemed to find the perfect vehicle for his particular form of brilliance with 2009’s stop-motion animated Fa...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Tower Heist”
TOWER HEIST: Watch It At Home – Hardly Luxury-Class There may never have been a director more proud of being a hack than Brett Ratner. In a recent NY Times profile, Ratner boasts (when he’s ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Real Steel”
REAL STEEL: Watch It At Home – The Word is “Clunky” REAL STEEL wants to be loved so much, it practically walks the audience members to their cars and offers to give them all a lift home. And yet, th...
ShowbuzzDaily Sundance 2022 Reviews: “892” & “After Yang”
892 (no distrib): John Boyega’s turbo-charged performance fuels this true story. In 2017, when Brian Brown-Easley (Boyega) entered a Wells Fargo branch in a suburb of Atlanta and informed the teller that his ba...